If you can't beat 'em -- Re-name 'em!!!

Back on June 5th, I shared with y'all, the desperation that the Washington DC police were havin' with street gangs. Setting up road blocks, locking down neighborhoods -- turning our Nation's Capital into 'Baghdad East'!

It appears they have found the solution --- they have created a new name for them - so they no longer have a 'gang' related problem in our great Capital.... Whoa Maud!! From the Washington Times:

D.C. anti-gang effort: Call them 'crews'
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
When is a gang not a gang? When it's based in the District.
D.C. officials insist on describing groups of young males as "crews," rather than gangs, even when they are held responsible for violent acts such as the wave of killings in the city last weekend. But police officials in other cities say the distinction is counterproductive.
"The very first step in dealing with gangs is denial," said Capt. Charles Bloom of the Philadelphia Police Department. "Then you get to the point that you can't deny it any more."
D.C. police, lawmakers and community activists say the groups are not gangs because their members are mostly teens who band together for personal protection. That, they say, distinguished them from conventional gangs, which are created for a criminal enterprise such as drug dealing.
Capt. Bloom said Philadelphia quit trying to make such distinctions two years ago. Although they once described such bands as "loose groups," they now use the term "gang-related" for any group that engages in criminal violence.
Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier acknowledged this week that crews appear to be connected to some of the 10 homicides in the past two weeks — including four this past weekend. And they are connected to hundreds of shots fired and a dozen shootings late last year in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in Northwest, officials say.

I hope she said that reeeeaaaalll slow so everyone could understand. The 'crews' connected to ten homicide in two weeks and a dozen shootings are not gang related, they are crews. You know, like a carpentry crew, a rowing crew, a ships crew in white sailor suits.... a CREW! I sure hope those ten dead folks and the dozens of others shot --- understand the difference!

Maybe we ought to get the DOD and Homeland Security to call Osama and his terrorist El Queda recruits -- "Testifiers for Islam" . Then we could all just 'get along" Kumbaya!